The main purpose of this research is to investigate the response of Pakistani banking customers towards corporate social responsibility initiatives. This study also seeks to investigate the importance level of each initiative as per the customers' perceptions. The sample includes 300 banking...

One of the major issue for policy makers is handling with continues increase in the level of unemployment in Pakistan. Thus forecasting unemployment rate is imperative to policy makers. This study aims to explore the best forecasting model among ARIMA, ARFIMA and exponential smoothing for...

Context: Successful software systems continuously evolve to accommodate feature requests of a diverse customer-base. At some point during this evolution, the variety of customer needs and increased system complexity suggests the consideration of a software product line (SPL).Aim: The goal of...

This study draws insights from the imprinting theory to investigate the impact of ideologically imprinted board chairs on corporate innovation. By examining a sample of Chinese listed manufacturing firms from 2003 to 2016, we find that firms with board chairs who get socialized during the...

Purpose: The literature lacks a specific mechanism that may help to explain the variation in corporate innovation. This research helps to explain a specific mechanism that affects corporate innovation. Design/methodology/approach: Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression has been used to analyse...

This study examines the impact of CEO attributes on sustainable performance, environmental performance and environmental reporting, which are motivated by institutionally-driven environmental policies, regulations, and management in the context of Chinese listed firms. Using a comprehensive...

This study investigates the effect of environmental performance that is driven by good environmental policies, regulations, and management on firm's financial distress and, consequently, ascertains the extent to which top management teams' (TMTs') characteristics can moderate the environmental...

We examine the effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) quality ratings on the financial distress levels of Chinese enterprises by using the previously unexplored new China-specific Altman “Z_China Score” in the context of CSR and data from 749 firms over the 2009-2014 period. First,...

This study investigates how CEO power is associated with stock price crash risk. We further examine the moderating roles of female directors’ critical mass and ownership structure on the relationship between CEO power and stock price crash risk. Employing one of the largest datasets to-date of...